inhabit
verb (used with object)
to live or dwell in (a place), as people or animals.
were inhabiting
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past progressiveof inhabit.past progressive
Used to describe an ongoing action or continuous state that was happening at a specific time in the past.
Example Sentences
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You can observe a school of fish before you, then look up and see the sunlight piercing the water, as if you too were inhabiting the depths.
From Los Angeles Times ● Oct. 12, 2023
In the Smokies, she encountered locals who were oblivious to the land’s fraught history and had no idea they were inhabiting sacred songline territory.
From The Guardian ● Sep. 7, 2017
They wanted us to feel part of this new society we were inhabiting, and they wanted to cheer us up.
From The Guardian ● Dec. 24, 2016
The trading teams at Goldman and the executives who presided over them were inhabiting an extreme variant of a closed world, where their reality was populated by the electronic images and databases of their systems.
From Salon ● Apr. 6, 2014
For some days he delayed, to learn as much as possible from these people in the observation of their character and the topography and peculiarities of the country they were inhabiting.
From The Memories of Fifty Years Containing Brief Biographical Notices of Distinguished Americans, and Anecdotes of Remarkable Men; Interspersed with Scenes and Incidents Occurring during a Long Life of Observation Chiefly Spent in the Southwest by William Henry Sparks
